Samsung Galaxy S 4 Review - Part 1
by Brian Klug on April 24, 2013 12:01 AM ESTNAND Performance
The Galaxy S 4 ships with either 16GB or 32GB of NAND on-board, but allows for expansion via a microSD card slot. The latter is a quickly disappearing feature on modern smartphones, but it remains a point of differentiation offered by Samsung. We were sampled a 16GB version of the Galaxy S 4, which arrived with 9.62GB of usable space after the OS and app pre-load.
As always we're using Androbench (with modified settings) to quantify NAND performance. Thankfully NAND performance has been steadily improving on modern smartphones/tablets, and the Galaxy S 4 is no exception. Sequential read performance actually sees a tremendous boost compared to most of the other devices in our charts here. Optimizing for sequential read performance makes a lot of sense, but it's good to see Samsung being competitive on all fronts here.
It is worth pointing out that NAND is treated very much as a commodity in these devices, and it's entirely possible that you'll see performance deviate from what we've shown here depending on what controller/NAND/firmware combination you get in your device.
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vipuls1979 - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - link
I have posted a comparision on http://mobiknowhow.blogspot.com and i personally think one should go ahead with S4 instead of HTC Onesrihari - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Anand, non-technical people will not be able to judge the better phone by looking at the GPU benchmark onscreen numbers(with varying screen resolutions for different phone). so, i suggest you to post *only* GPU benchmark off-screen numbers.cadjak - Saturday, May 25, 2013 - link
This device has a primary function that seems NOT to get examined in reviews. How well does it send and/or receive a simple voice communication? The S3 had some serious issues around reception in areas with marginal LTE signal. I have had to tweak mine to get it to reliably work as a phone, by setting it to CDMA auto (PRL). I am trying to find out if the S4 will have similar connection issues, but I'm not having much luck.vipuls1979 - Monday, May 27, 2013 - link
i would sincerely like to go with Galaxy S4 rather then HTC one, updates released by Samsung are more quicker then HTC anddid you know a recent Press Trust of India Release says Camera sales are down due to Smartphone camera
full report at http://mobiknowhow.blogspot.com
paul_59 - Monday, May 27, 2013 - link
Interesting comments about differences between S4 8064AB &.HTC One 8064TI ran a custom kernel and overclock HTC One to 1.89Ghz (S4 1.9Ghz)
Got sunspider 0.91 benchmark result 550 ms .
I realise benchmarking is subject to lots of variables
vipuls1979 - Thursday, June 6, 2013 - link
Guys, i hope you must be aware of latest blackberry Q10 launched in Indiafor more details visit http://mobiknowhow.blogspot.com/2013/06/blackberry...
MonkeyK - Thursday, June 13, 2013 - link
Are the battery test stats really right? 1 hour of additional Wifi web browsing time is huge. But every other review that I have read shows the S4 having slightly longer battery life. So what gives?elucid - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link
I guess Part 2 is not coming? If it still is, a battery test with a real LTE network like Verizon (or even ATT) would be interesting.reapergato - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link
2 months later and still no Part 2? I sure hope with all that extra real world testing the part 2 article will knock our socks off....Optimummind - Sunday, June 30, 2013 - link
It's been over 2 months and still no Part 2?Also, after re-reading the review, it seems the article has been edited from its original release.